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Question by Bruce: Does God see me as selfish because I am against taking other people’s money to pay for health care?
I’m still trying to sort out the moral dimensions of the Obamacare bill rammed through Congress by one party over the opposition of the majority of Americans. Liberal Christians have argued that our obligation to care for the poor justifies seizing the earnings of others to pay for their health care, and they say that opposition to socialized medicine indicates a mean-spirited selfishness and indifference to the suffering of the poor.

Conservative Christians see our obligation to be generous with our own money, not with someone else’s. They see Obamacare by taxation and redistribution as evading this personal responsibility, and thus ultimately selfish in refusing to provide charity from out of one’s own pocket.

The political argument is whether turning over health care to government will improve services or whether it will lead to delayed treatments, an exodus of doctors, a halt to the development of better medicines and technology, and death panels to ration treatment. The moral argument is which side, if any, is heartless and selfish.

It is the latter question I am addressing here. In God’s eyes, am I selfish if I oppose paying for health care out of other people’s pockets, or if I favor paying for health care out of other people’s pockets?
Soulless, I don’t remember Obama campaigning that bureaucrats would henceforth be making our healthcare decisions. But you are mistaking my question as political. I am asking what positions on the government takeover say about our selfishness or generosity. Since other nationalities face similar choices, I am not restricting my question to Americans.
Mike K, you make an interesting political argument, though I disagree that when insurance companies compete, we lose; rather, we are the beneficiaries. However, I wonder what you make of the moral question I tried to separate from the political issue?
Domenic, the US already has uses taxes to help pay for medical care for the chronically poor (Medicaid, free emergency services) and for the elderly (Medicaid). My question is narrower: Is it selfish to refuse to confiscate money earned by someone else to pay for health services for the non-poor and non-elderly?
So Mikey, those opposed to Obamacare are “selfish bigots who didn’t want to lose one precious cent to care for others who might be of some other race”? And those who seize others earnings, refusing to give out of their own pockets, are generous? How do you figure?

Best answer:

Answer by suzy
I DON’T THINK GOD GIVES A SH*T.

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